小说A&P是当代美国作家约翰·厄普代克的代表作之一,该小说通过一位年轻职员萨米所谓的“英雄行为”揭示了20世纪60年代美国社会的“精神荒原”。本文试通过现代人缺失的“海洋情结”这一视角,分析小镇居民精神荒原产生的诱因,并指出只有“海洋情结”的复归才是变荒原为沃土的良方。 Novel A & P is one of the representative works of contemporary American writer John Updike, which reveals the “spiritual wasteland” of American society in the 1960s through the so-called “heroic act” Sami called a young employee. This article tries to analyze the inducement of spiritual wilderness of small town residents through the perspective of the missing “ocean complex” of modern people and points out that only the return of “sea complex” is the recipe for changing wasteland into fertile soil.